About the Teachers

Velvet Abato-Wenker, the owner of Welcome Om Hatha Yoga since February 2009, began studying yoga in 1979. She has been teaching in the Baltimore area since 1999 after completing teacher training through the Yoga Teacher Apprentice Program with Stan Andrezewski at Greater Baltimore Yoga Center. Stan, along with Erich Schiffman, Victor Vankooten, and Barbara Banaugh have deeply influenced both her yoga practice and her teaching style, which combines precision in alignment and form with a light-hearted, joyful, and humorous approach.

Thelma Gruss--go to either ThelmaGruss.com or AppliedYoga Solutions.com for information about Thelma's experience and expertise.

Chris Judge has been practicing yoga since 1992, SInce then he has had a variety of teachers in a variety of styles but the ones the stick out most and the ones he always returns to are Anusara teacher Moses Brown and Rolf Sovik and Sandy Anderson from the Himalayan Institute. In 2008 He received his 200 hr RYT from the Himalayan Institute Teachers Association and he has been teaching ever since. He was initated into the Himalayan Lineage in 2008.

Dorothy Valakos

Regina